The one judge who voted against everything:

Her dissenting opinion concluded that the dispute in question was essentially political rather than legal and there was no plausible basis for finding genocidal intent on the part of Israel.

That phrase “genocidal intent” is interesting, and not something I think is reflected in international law. The actual case is summarised as:

South Africa considers Israel to be responsible for committing genocide in Gaza and for failing to prevent and punish genocidal acts. South Africa contends that Israel has also violated other obligations under the Genocide Convention, including those concerning “conspiracy to commit genocide, direct and public incitement to genocide, attempted genocide and complicity in genocide

In any case, this decision is an initial stage about Israel’s obligation to PREVENT genocide. So the dissent is not actually relevant until later, right?

Fuuuucking hell what a terrible article. Here’s the pertinent paragraph:

Campaigners accuse Euro Parking of circumventing data protection rules by using EU-based agents to request driver data without disclosing that it is for UK enforcement.

TFL contracts Euro Parking to send fines to people. Euro Parking is based in the EU, and uses that fact to obtain information about European drivers, which TFL ultimately should not have access to.

Here’s the thing, it is the data CONTROLLER’S job to control data. You can make all the requests you want and it’s up to the party that holds the data to make sure that request is legitimate. The breach is on their side.

I guess there is an argument that this information has been obtained under false pretenses. If that’s true, it’s still got nothing to do with TFL. I guarantee there’s a contract term about complying with all relevant laws.

I’d say that is practically over

The problem is that the media and political class has conspired to make you think that. It is most definitely not “over”. Not as a live pandemic, and not as the aftermath ie long covid, lost school years, etc. It’s like if in 2009 people said the financial crisis was over.

Wes Streeting orchestrated it from within labour, he is now shadow health sec and making noises about privatising the NHS.